Bonnie Sheldon
Bio
COACHES, CONSULTANTS, ENTREPRENEURS, BUSINESS OWNERS, & HEALERS, if you are ready to:
► Embrace a stress-free lifestyle while achieving abundance in all aspects of life. ► Cultivate physical and mental health, longevity, and fulfilling personal relationships. ► Skyrocket your fitness and happiness, living a life of purpose and fulfillment. ► Learn and apply EFT techniques to transform lives as a professional or in a new career path.
EVENT ORGANIZERS, GROUPS, COMPANIES, if you are looking for an expert keynote speaker to speak and inspire or offer programs/workshops in the fields of:
► Stress-Free Living and Abundance ► Embodied Wellness in Daily Life ► EFT and its Role in Personal Development
◉ Book a free call with me: ☎ MESSAGE: Bonnie Sheldon
Hi, I’m Bonnie Sheldon 🙂
I am an Accredited Certified EFT Master Trainer, a somatics expert, and an embodiment coach. My mission is to guide individuals toward a life of ease, purpose, and prosperity—without compromising their health or personal relationships. My clients have included dancers, business professionals, and individuals seeking spiritual growth.
I am renowned for my capacity to aid individuals in overcoming diverse challenges. I have also worked with organizations such as the Wounded Warrior Project, helping veterans with PTSD, and Trinity Cathedral in Miami. I have developed programs such as Heartbreak Rescue® for women undergoing divorce or separation
As Group Director at Young and Rubicam Brands, Inc., I was instrumental in taking Advil over the counter, making it accessible to millions, and enhancing accessibility and public health.
Having worked with over 9,000 clients in a lifetime of healing, I champion an embodied fitness/wellbeing paradigm that integrates an understanding of the mind-body connection. My corporate wellness work, unfolding in recent years, has also created a demand for my programs in the business world.
I love training people in EFT Tapping, mentoring professionals who want to add EFT to their toolkit with the assurance they’re trauma-informed and fully capable, and those looking for a new career as a Certified Accredited EFT Practitioner.
My uniqueness? Beyond my smile, I am a Princeton University Scholar from the first class that included women; I am a trailblazer in somatic healing and a dedicated mentor. With over 30 years of experience in dance, business, and spiritual Coaching, I have empowered countless individuals to lead more fulfilling lives.
I am not just saying this to impress you but to inspire you because I am a woman who has overcome significant health challenges. I’ve built a life of service and empowerment. Give me a call or message me here at The Wellness Universe. Together, we can make stress-free living and abundant health a reality.
For Coaching or career transformation, I’m here to help you make the next step. I have always been passionate about helping others and myself achieve wellness, happiness, and fulfillment.
Recent Wellness Universe Blog Writings on Embodiment and Somatics:
EFT Tapping and Surfing the Fourth Wave Therapies
Decoding the Mystique of Having a Body
How to Move Into Conscious Embodiment
Nurturing the Mind-Body Connection with Embodiment and Fitness
Finding Peace with Physical Activity
The Couch’s Allure, Making Peace with Physical Activity
Embodiment, a Mind-Body Companion to Yoga
How to Use Chair Yoga for Embodiment
Achieving Skilled Embodiment with Chair Yoga
The Foundations of Embodied Spirituality
Practices for an Embodied Spirituality
Bringing Embodied Spirituality into Daily Life
Are You Ready to Detox for Sober September
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More About Me: My journey has taken me through various fields and roles, from dance to business to ministry to EFT. Along the way, I have learned from pioneers and experts, overcome challenges and obstacles, and touched the lives of thousands of people. As a compassionate empath, I understand the difficulties life can bring, and I co-work with my clients to achieve a sense of self-mastery and ease of empowered mind and movement.
I started as a dancer and choreographer, studying at Princeton University while dancing in NYC. I faced difficulties with my dance performance due to physical disability caused by problems at birth, but I did not give up – I discovered the new, as yet un-named field of Somatics, which taught me how to experience and heal my body from within. I became a Body-Mind Centering Practitioner in NYC and continued my dance career while also studying with other somatic pioneers like Moche Feldenkrais. I later worked as a dance therapist at Bellevue Hospital and helped establish dance therapy as a profession at Hunter College.
When dancing became too physically challenging, I switched to business, joining Young and Rubicam Brands, Inc., the then world’s largest ad agency. In three years, I rose from account coordinator to Group Director.
Even as I became more physically disabled, I experienced a calling to return to service. I pursued ministry and training at Union Theological Seminary and the School for Ministry of the S.E. Florida Episcopal Diocese. I worked as a minister at Trinity Cathedral in Miami, where I founded and directed a program for homeless families with disabled breadwinners. I helped 300 families a year achieve safe homes and financial independence. By this time, I had long been diagnosed with Systemic Sclerosis with a 6-month prognosis but had already outlived that prognosis repeatedly and felt a deep surge of the life force within, enabling me to move beyond medical expectations.
I left the ministry for a wider theology as I had been studying meditation and yoga philosophy with my guru from India for 25 years at this point. So, I focused on helping people as a coach and mentor from a spiritual perspective that was no longer religion-specific and continued to work on my own health.
I became interested in Energy, becoming a Reiki Master and doing deep chakra work with my guru. I reinvestigated my studies of shamanism, working with contemporary shamans, going beyond the indigenous shaman work I had done early in my life.
It was through my always passionate search for out-of-the box health solutions that I discovered EFT, or Emotional Freedom Techniques, also known as ‘Tapping’ fairly early in it’s development as a methodology, started tapping in 2010. I became an EFT Practitioner as EFT became scientifically validated and found great joy in helping people overcome various issues, including veterans with PTSD in the Wounded Warrior Project. I created the Heartbreak Rescue program for divorced and separated women, serving hundreds of women who were rebuilding their lives.
It’s a joy to continue serving in the rewarding fields of health and wellness through individual coaching, group workshops and trainings, and corporate wellness programs.
Awards and Affiliations
Present Affiliations:
American Association of Energy Psychologists
EFT International
The EFT and Mindfulness Centre
Yoga International
The International Academy of Meta Consciousness
The Matrix Reimprinting with EFT Foundation
The Moksha Arts Collective (Miami, Florida, USA)
Certifications and Credentials
Certified Accredited EFT Master Trainer - EFT and Mindfulness Centre
Certified Accredited Advanced EFT Practitioner - EFT International
Certified Movement Analyst - Laban/Bartinieff Institute of Movement Studies
Certified Accredited Matrix Reimprinting Practitioner
Certified International Academy of Meta Consciousness Practitioner - Candidate
Yoga 500 Hr. Teacher Training - Yoga International, The Yoga Alliance